Comes now something I longed to see, science brought to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM):
Big Pharmacy has not been interested in this since you cannot patent any of these medicines. At he same time the FDA has clamped down on health claims. In any event, medicine should be science based. If the big boys want to bring science to medicine, then great. If they plan to win through marketing, then great. If they plan as usual, such as with taxol, to win through legalism, "embrace and strangle," then "here we go again."
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"TCM is a well-established medical science based on thousands of years of clinical practices. It shows great promise treating complicated conditions that the single-target Western medicine has failed to handle," said Zang Jingwu, senior vice-president and head of GlaxoSmithKline's R&D in China.
"Our priority is to transform TCM from an experience-based practice to evidence-based medicines through innovation and differentiation," he said.
Currently, a 10-person team in Shanghai is in charge of the program, with a medication candidate for skin disease in the works.
Zang, a US-trained neurologist, said TCM is more of a multi-target therapeutical approach, which might work to treat complex conditions.
Big Pharmacy has not been interested in this since you cannot patent any of these medicines. At he same time the FDA has clamped down on health claims. In any event, medicine should be science based. If the big boys want to bring science to medicine, then great. If they plan to win through marketing, then great. If they plan as usual, such as with taxol, to win through legalism, "embrace and strangle," then "here we go again."
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
1 comments:
Maybe it is a way for us to better understand how TCM works and I am intrigued to learn more.
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